Physics 556 - Nuclei & Elementary Particles
Spring
2025
01
3.00
Rafael Coelho Lopes de Sa
TU TH 11:30AM 12:45PM
UMass Amherst
49656
Hasbrouck Lab Add room 106
rclsa@umass.edu
Role of symmetries and conservation laws in the processes involving elementary particles. Feynman diagrams and scattering amplitudes: given a theory, how to compute cross sections and decay rates. Quantum electrodynamics, the weak and strong interactions and the quark model of hadrons, the Higgs boson, the Standard Model.